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To set the order of overlapping elements, use the “Bring to Front” and “Send
to Back” buttons.
To align the right/left, top/bottom edges or the centers of the selected form elements:
horizontally - use the horizontal alignment tools
vertically - use the vertical arrangement tools.
The commands of the Form Arrangement toolbar are also accessible from the shortcut menu
of any form element.
Editing Form object properties
To edit a form object directly select it then right-click the given element to display its shortcut
menu. You can edit the appearance or the properties of any form element here. Use the
following commands:
Form Object Appearance - use the tabs Borders, Shading and Shadow to design the look of
your form elements in a similar way as you would do in a text-editing application.
Form Object Properties - this command gives you access to the element properties such as
size, position, name. Properties dynamically vary depending on what type of element you
select.
Extracting Form Data
Form data extraction (FDE) is a workflow step. Data is extracted from elements
such as fillable fields, check boxes, and option buttons. FDE is a simplified
implementation of the full Logical Form Recognition technology.
To create a workflow that contains form data extraction:
• Define the processing input and its settings. Input types include: image PDF, PDF
form, image files and forms scanned from paper.
• Choose Extract Form Data in place of recognition, and specify its settings. This
includes a language choice. The option Detect single language automatically can be
useful for unattended processing of forms when the language used to fill each of the
forms cannot be determined beforehand. See the topic “Languages”.